Heading into a firework, here’s a reminder that light comes in bottles and jars and streams and faraway satellites. Drawn up from the archives, we’re so happy to present J.R. Kangas’ “Luminescence” and “Big Moon”:
![J. R. Kangas - Luminescence; Big Moon [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/j-r-kangas-luminescence-big-moon-sample1.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Long days, long days. Resurrected from the archive, Joan Colby’s “John the Baptist of the Summer Solstice“:
![Joan Colby - John the Baptist of the Summer Solstice [sample_Page_1]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/joan-colby-john-the-baptist-of-the-summer-solstice-sample_page_1.png?w=700&h=1081)
![Joan Colby - John the Baptist of the Summer Solstice [sample_Page_2]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/joan-colby-john-the-baptist-of-the-summer-solstice-sample_page_2.png?w=700&h=1081)
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In fact the mutant is happy in a world of mutants. In fact in extreme close-up the alien turns out to be just another planet. In fact if you read this you may be launched into outer space. It’s Melissa Dias-Mandoly’s “The Fly”:
![Melissa Dias-Mandoly - The Fly [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/melissa-dias-mandoly-the-fly-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
Orbiting our archives in the 2.2 belt, “The Fly” is gloriously in print or downloadable. Read on!
National Poetry Month, or #NaPoWriMo if you are into that, is drawing to a close. Also, baseball season’s in full swing. We’re types who have a weird affection for the Twins, even though they have no pitching, or the Cubs, even though they are the Cubs. Cubbies? Cubs. Also other teams, maybe, if they can even be said to exist (the “Cardinals”???).
Here’s an apropos poem by Justin Hamm [>>] from SC 3.2, “Bird on a Wire, 1989“![Justin Hamm - Bird on a Wire, 1989 [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/justin-hamm-bird-on-a-wire-1989-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Updated with two new-to-the-site poems that appeared in Storm Cellar 2.3, we’re pleased offer a superb selection from Angela Veronica Wong [>>]:![Angela Veronica Wong – five poems [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/angela-veronica-wong-e28093-five-poems-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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